Posts tagged with "climate"

December 23rd, 2018By Gwynne Dyer
Global warming is physics and chemistry, and you can’t negotiate with science for more time to solve the problem: more emissions mean a hotter planet. Dealing with the problem, however, requires an international negotiation involving almost 200 countries. In big gatherings of that sort, the convoy always moves at the...

December 16th, 2018By Nina Chestney, Bate Felix and Agnieszka Barteczko
Nearly 200 countries overcame political divisions late on Saturday to agree on rules for implementing a landmark global climate deal, but critics say it is not ambitious enough to prevent the dangerous effects of global warming.
After two weeks of talks in the Polish city of...

November 25th, 2018Many thanks to John Barbour for his comments regarding my exposure of the global warming hoax.
It is said that the best way to win a debate is to have the other side argue badly or illogically. Clearly there is no connection between the deplorable overuse of insecticides (man-made), and CO2 which is essential to life on Earth and 93...

August 20th, 2018Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Monday stripped requirements for reducing greenhouse emissions from his centrepiece energy policy in the face of political opposition, although the country remains a signatory to the Paris Agreement.
While stopping short of following the lead of US President Donald Trump and withdrawing...

June 13th, 2018Europe needs to reduce its carbon emissions by more than currently planned to limit global warming as agreed under the Paris climate agreement, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told the European Parliament on Wednesday.
The European Union aims to reduce carbon emissions, which scientists hold responsible for global warming, by at least...

May 25th, 2018The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in international and local news – in audio form.
Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this week:
An international climate change conference addresses issues in the eastern Mediterranean;
the Pharos...

April 8th, 2018With a miniature experiment to try to cool the planet by blocking sunlight planned in Arizona within a year, international rules to govern "geoengineering" efforts must be put in place quickly, a governance advocate said.
An open, inclusive discussion on how the world will research and govern solar geoengineering is "urgently" needed...

February 26th, 2018Ensuring the ideas and perspectives of women are a part of climate policy decisions will deliver greater successes and unique solutions to one of the greatest challenges we face. But barriers must be overcome to ensure that women have a voice in these discussions.
Our era is a moment of both grave threat and great opportunity. Among...

December 28th, 2017Lawyers and advocates stepped up the fight against climate change this year by pursuing a rising number of legal cases around the world that aim to test the limits of national laws.
Climate change cases numbered nearly 900 in 24 nations as of March, according to a survey by UN Environment and Columbia Law School, marking a steady...

December 12th, 2017French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a bleak assessment on the global fight against climate change to dozens of world leaders and company executives on Tuesday, telling them: "We are losing the battle".
"We're not moving quickly enough. We all need to act," Macron said, seeking to breathe new life into a collective effort that...

November 7th, 2017By Dina Ionesco
Sudden-onset disasters are displacing tens of millions every year, adding to the existing economic and political causes of mass migration.
Harvey, the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas in more than 50 years, displaced more than a million residents and damaged some 200,000 houses in August 2017. The same month,...

October 24th, 2017US companies are still among the most ambitious in setting targets to combat global warming despite President Donald Trump's plans to quit the 195-nation Paris climate agreement, a 2017 survey showed on Tuesday.
US-based firms made up a fifth of those in a 2017 'A list' of 159 companies judged to have ambitious policies on limiting...

June 20th, 2017By Ruth Greenspan Bell and D. James Baker,
Efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions may have been dashed by the Trump administration’s reversing course on the Paris accord. Nevertheless, across America the fight goes on at regional and corporate levels.
These are worrisome times as we contemplate the disconnect between the urgency of...

May 4th, 2017Cyprus had the second highest increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of all EU member states in 2016, while in 11 of the countries the emissions decreased during the year.
According to Eurostat estimates published on Thursday, CO2 emissions rose in 2016 in a majority of EU Member States, with the highest increase being recorded in...

March 7th, 2017By Henry Lee & Wang Pu
If the U.S withdraws from the climate arena, China could seize the opportunity to fill the vacuum and, in turn, exercise greater leadership in global affairs.
The transition from President Obama to President Trump has triggered fears that the new administration will overturn many of the policies, programs and...

March 2nd, 2017By Brigitte Knopf
Under its German presidency, the G20 should push for carbon pricing. This would pursue a growth agenda that both protects the environment and lifts people out of poverty.
At first glance, the outlook for climate policy in 2017 does not look too promising: Donald Trump has become president of the U.S. and has presented...

November 15th, 2016By Alister Doyle and Nina Chestney
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday action on climate change has become "unstoppable" and predicted that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump would drop plans to quit a global accord aimed at weaning the world off fossil fuels.
At a meeting of almost 200 nations in Morocco to work out...

October 21st, 2016Typhoon Haima, the strongest storm to hit the Philippines in three years, killed at least 12 people and inundated vast tracts of rice and corn fields, officials in Manila said on Friday, before it took aim at Hong Kong.
Philippine authorities said they were assessing the extent of damage to infrastructure and crops, but confirmed that...

October 15th, 2016By Clement Uwiringiyimana
Nearly 200 nations hammered out a legally binding deal to cut back on greenhouse gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners, a Rwandan minister announced to loud cheers on Saturday, in a major step against climate change.
The deal, which includes the world's two biggest economies, the United States...

August 17th, 2016By Alister Doyle
The Earth is likely to get relief in 2017 from record scorching temperatures that bolstered governments' resolve last year in reaching a deal to combat climate change, scientists said on Wednesday.
July was the hottest single month since records began in the 19th century, driven by greenhouse gases and an El Nino...

April 19th, 2016Torrential rainfall totaling 18 inches (46 cm) pummeled Houston on Monday, causing floods that were believed responsible for five deaths and that snarled transport and turned roads into lakes in the fourth most-populous U.S. city.
More than 1,000 homes were flooded in Harris County, which contains Houston, and there were more than...

April 19th, 2016If you spend a lot of time talking to scientists about climate change, there’s one word you’ll hear time and time again, and yet it’s hardly ever mentioned in the public discussion of climate change. The word is “non-linear”.
Most people think of global warming as an incremental thing. It may be inexorable, but it’s also...

January 20th, 2016By Valerie Volcovici
Last year's global average temperature was the hottest ever by the widest margin on record, two US government agencies said on Wednesday, adding to pressure for deep greenhouse gas emissions cuts scientists say are needed to arrest warming that is disrupting the global climate.
Data from US space agency NASA...

January 18th, 2016By Gene Blevins
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Sunday and put a climate-monitoring satellite into orbit, but botched an attempted return landing on a platform at sea, officials said.
The first stage of the rocket made it back to the platform, which was floating in the Pacific Ocean, but one of the rocket's...

January 17th, 2016By Irene Klotz
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is poised to launch from California on Sunday to put a key climate-monitoring satellite into orbit, then turn around and attempt to land on a platform in the ocean.
Liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base is scheduled for 10:42 a.m. PST (1842 GMT).
After sending the U.S.- and European-owned...

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